District of Hersbruck

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 11 ° 26'  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1862-1972
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Hersbruck
Area :	287.6 km 2
Residents:	33,000 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	HEB
Circle key :	09 5 38
Circle structure:	39 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	8562 Hersbruck
Location of the district of Hersbruck in Bavaria

The district of Hersbruck was part of the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia . Before the Bavarian regional reform began in the early 1970s, the district comprised 39 communities.

geography

Important places

The largest places were Hersbruck , Velden , Happurg and Kirchensittenbach .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Pegnitz , Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate , Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , Nuremberg , Lauf an der Pegnitz and Forchheim .

history

District Office

The district office of Hersbruck was formed in 1862 through the merger of the district courts of the older order of Hersbruck and Lauf an der Pegnitz.

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the district office of Hersbruck received municipalities from the district office of Eschenbach in Upper Palatinate on January 1, 1880 .

On January 1, 1898, the district office of Nuremberg municipalities ceded to the district office of Hersbruck.

The district office of Lauf an der Pegnitz was formed in 1908 by hiving off municipalities from the district offices of Hersbruck and Pegnitz.

On January 1, 1911, the municipality of Alfeld of the Sulzbach district office was reclassified to the Hersbruck district office.

district

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . This is how the district office became the district of Hersbruck.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Hersbruck was added to the district of Lauf an der Pegnitz in the course of the regional reform in Bavaria, together with the then district of Nuremberg. The city of Nuremberg itself remained independent .

Initially the district was named Lauf an der Pegnitz , on May 1, 1973 it was renamed the Nürnberger Land district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1864	32,675
1885	38.172
1900	40,471
1910	22,568
1925	22,642
1939	23,576
1950	35,804
1960	32,000
1971	33,000

Communities

Places in italics are still independent communities today. In the places that are no longer independent today, it is noted which municipality the place belongs to today.

Cities Hersbruck Velden

Other communities Alfalter ( Vorra municipality ) Alfeld Algersdorf (municipality of Kirchensittenbach ) Altensittenbach (City of Hersbruck ) Artelshofen (municipality of Vorra ) Arzlohe (municipality of Pommelsbrunn ) Aspertshofen (municipality of Kirchensittenbach ) Breitenbrunn (community Offenhausen ) Ellenbach (City of Hersbruck ) Engelthal Enzendorf (municipality of Hartenstein ) Eschenbach (municipality of Pommelsbrunn ) Förrenbach (municipality of Happurg ) Grünreuth (municipality of Hartenstein ) Happurg Hartenstein Hartmannshof (municipality of Pommelsbrunn ) Heldmannsberg (municipality of Pommelsbrunn ) Henfenfeld Hohenstadt (municipality of Pommelsbrunn ) Hubmersberg (municipality of Pommelsbrunn ) Kainsbach (municipality of Happurg ) Kirchensittenbach Kleedorf (municipality of Kirchensittenbach ) Kruppach ( Engelthal community ) Kucha ( Offenhausen municipality ) Oberkrumbach (municipality of Kirchensittenbach ) Offenhausen Pollanden (municipality of Alfeld ) Pommelsbrunn Reichenschwand Sendelbach ( Engelthal community ) Thalheim (municipality of Happurg ) Treuf (municipality of Kirchensittenbach ) Viehhofen (municipality of Velden ) Supply Wallsdorf (municipality of Kirchensittenbach )

Community-free area Hartenstein

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign HEB when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until August 3, 1974. It has been available in the district of Nürnberger Land since July 15, 2013 ( license plate liberalization ).

literature

• Georg Schmidt: City and district of Hersbruck. A home book. Pfeiffer, Hersbruck 1951.
• Wilhelm Schwemmer: District of Hersbruck (=  The art monuments of Bavaria . Middle Franconia 10). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1959, DNB  457322497 .
• Wilhelm Schwemmer, Gustav Voit: Lauf-Hersbruck (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 14). Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1967, DNB  456999256 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 716 .
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 719 .
6. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Middle Franconia
9. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973